libertine in English

adjective
1
characterized by a disregard of morality, especially in sexual matters.
his more libertine impulses
2
freethinking in matters of religion.
For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice.
noun
1
a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.
The principal character is a delinquent libertine , Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel.
synonyms: philanderer playboy rake rouéDon JuanLotharioCasanovaRomeo lecher seducerwomanizer adulterer debauchee profligate wanton skirt-chaser tomcat horndog ladykiller lech wolf fornicator
2
a person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion; a freethinker.
The same goes for gnostic Christianity, where we had the strict ascetics on the one hand and the extreme libertines on the other.
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Use "libertine" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "libertine" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "libertine", or refer to the context using the word "libertine" in the English Dictionary.

1. The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

2. I believe John is not a libertine any more.

3. I lost Ruth and gained an undeserved reputation as a potential libertine.

4. Although he is quite a libertine with the women, this particular President, I understand.

5. But the libertine who turned to religion in maturity seemed to get undue credit.

6. A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses a libertine.

7. Take one step away from those laws and you become a lecher, a libertine, an assassin.

8. The true obsessional or libertine has to accomplish them at a set hour.

9. A man without an address is a vagaband, a man with two addresses is a libertine.

10. 29 For if a libertine knows he can indulge himself with impunity, he will throw all cautions to the winds.

11. In 1886, the collection had increased to slightly more than 700, including many cheap reprints of Libertine novels from the Ancien Régime.

12. For if a libertine knows he can indulge himself with impunity, he will throw all cautions to the winds.

13. The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of the giddy libertine , or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider.

14. Bellini had begun the job by painting “The Feast of the Gods” for the libertine duke, who wanted the best artists in Italy to paint canvases on themes of classical drunken revels.